Puck, February 15, 1882

In Frederick B. Opper's cartoon for Puck, titled The King of A-Shantee, Paddy and Bridget are portrayed as the stereotypical Irish peasant couple, living in their lowly shanty; the Irishman is connected through the pun of "A-Shantee" with the African Ashanti, just as his prognathous, simian features suggest that he may be the theorized "missing link" in the evolution between apes and black Africans.

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